Obama: No government shutdown over ACA

President Barack Obama predicted there won’t be a government shutdown over Obamacare, while taking shots at those Republicans pushing the idea of defunding the health care law. “I’m assuming they will not take that path,” Obama said in his press conference. “I have confidence that common sense in the end will prevail.”

“The idea that we’re going to shut down the government unless we can prevent 30 million people from getting health care is a bad idea,” he added.

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A shutdown, he said, would hurt the economy when the recovery is “getting some traction.”